They are a wreath of attractiveness to your head and a fine necklace to your throat (Proverbs 1:8,9)

4 min readAug 13, 2024

Proverbs chapter 1:1–19:

The proverbs of Solʹo·mon the son of David, the king of Israel, 2 for one to know wisdom and discipline, to discern the sayings of understanding, 3 to receive the discipline that gives insight, righteousness and judgment and uprightness, 4 to give to the inexperienced ones shrewdness, to a young man knowledge and thinking ability.
5 A wise person will listen and take in more instruction, and a man of understanding is the one who acquires skillful direction, 6 to understand a proverb and a puzzling saying, the words of wise persons and their riddles.
7 The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge. Wisdom and discipline are what mere fools have despised (Verses 1–7).

The introduction explains that this book is written to know how to get wisdom. It has a very important purpose written in a single verse: “The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge. Wisdom and discipline are what mere fools have despised” (Proverbs 1:7). When a spiritual man has this spiritual wisdom, he understands better what the reverential fear of God means, the feelings that this arouses in himself, and how it can prevent him from falling into the practice of voluntary sin.

“Listen, my son, to the discipline of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother. For they are a wreath of attractiveness to your head and a fine necklace to your throat” (Proverbs 1:8,9). When someone puts jewelry, it is to appear beautiful and attractive. Physical beauty is a divine gift. People have a natural tendency to sublimate it by jewelry or ornaments, especially women. However, the divine wisdom creates an inner beauty, a divine charisma, like the beauty of a magnificent necklace that draws attention. Nevertheless, centuries later, Jesus Christ showed that the main purpose of this inner beauty as spiritual light, is in order to give glory to God by the Christian works (Matthew 5:14–16).

My son, if sinners try to seduce you, do not consent. 11 If they keep saying: “Do go with us. Do let us lie in ambush for blood. Do let us lie in concealment for the innocent men without any cause. 12 Let us swallow them down alive just like Sheʹol, even whole, like those going down into a pit. 13 Let us find all sorts of precious valuables. Let us fill our houses with spoil. 14 Your lot you ought to cast in among us. Let there come to be just one bag belonging to all of us” — 15 my son, do not go in the way with them. Hold back your foot from their roadway. 16 For their feet are those that run to sheer badness, and they keep hastening to shed blood. 17 For it is for nothing that the net is spread before the eyes of anything owning wings. 18 Consequently they themselves lie in ambush for the very blood of these; they lie in concealment for their souls. 19 Thus are the paths of everyone making unjust profit. It takes away the very soul of its owners (Verses 10–19).

“Thus are the paths of everyone making unjust profit. It takes away the very soul of its owners” (Proverbs 1:10–19). We must be careful with our associations: “Do not be misled. Bad associations spoil useful habits” (1 Corinthians 15:33).

Reading the Bible (Reading and meditating on the biblical book of Proverbs):

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THE SPIRITUAL MAN (Existential meditation on the biblical book of Ecclesiastes):

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The Promise of God. The complete explanation of Genesis 3:15.

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